-=PCTechTalk=- Re: A technical question....

Larry,
    That's the exact scenario I considered with my reply.  The problem is 
that DOS could still communicate with XMS/EMS through the memory manager 
layer.  Windows doesn't have anything like that and wouldn't be able to 
access the advanced memory space in order to use it to hold an often 
read/written swapfile.

    The only other option would be one of those ridiculously expensive 
add-on card RAM drives, but that's WAY beyond overkill for the process you 
have in mind.  If I had one of those, I'd bee running the entire OS from it. 
lol

Peace,
G

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:11 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: A technical question....


> Thanks.  Do you remember the old XMS/EMS workarounds for the 1 Meg memory
> limit?  That's what I was hoping that I could do -- use the memory above
> 3.12 GB as a virtual drive (using something like an XMS or EMS driver)and
> place the paging file in that space.....  Not use the space to run apps
> within.... 


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